Not long ago, The BFD reported on the plethora of claims linking Dr Anthony Fauci to virus research in Wuhan, in turn alleged by some to have led directly to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sorting out the gibbering nuttiness from the genuine leads is a fraught business. No, Fauci wasn’t some sort of Manchurian-Candidate-cum-Machiavelli villain, cackling away as he paid his Chinese minions to develop a bio super-weapon.
At the same time, it is clear that he is not completely untouched by the cloud of lies and cover-ups surrounding the origins of the Chinese virus. Those links, however tenuous, are now further tainted by claims that US regulations were circumvented in order to funnel US grant money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The Department of Health and Human Services in 2017 formed a Potential Pandemic Pathogens Control and Oversight (P3CO) framework for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a safeguard to make sure research into “dangerous pathogens” had appropriate safeguards in place.
However the Daily Caller released a new report on Sunday that reveals these measures were circumvented in a crucial grant that eventually bankrolled the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
So there is a direct link between Fauci and the money that found its way to Wuhan – and alleged rule-bending committed to get it there.
To clear up any confusion: Dr. Anthony Fauci led the NIAID, a subagency which gave an NIH grant to a non-profit called EcoHealth. This in turn led to a transfer of over $600,000 from EcoHealth to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. To study bat-based Coronaviruses in China.
If the P3CO looked over EcoHealth’s grant, they’d have had the opportunity to suggest additional safety measures to prevent something like a lab leak[…]
The way the grant bypassed P3CO review is because flagging proposals for review is optional.
It should be borne in mind that the “Gain of Function” virus research involved was banned by the US between 2014 and 2017. In 2018, US State Department cables warned about the “risky studies on coronaviruses from bats” being conducted at the Wuhan Institute.
It remains a question whether or not the EcoHealth grant met the P3CO’s standards. Richard H. Ebright is a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told Daily Caller the grant’s abstract outright states how it meets “gain of function” criteria, despite the NIH’s denials now otherwise. Given how the P3CO’s bylaws work, the HHS review committee wasn’t obligated to give a second opinion on NIAID’s own determination over the EcoHealth grant[…]
In April 2020 the Trump administration cut off the EcoHealth grant’s funding. “At this time, NIH does not believe that the current project outcomes align with the program goals and agency priorities,” said their research director Michael Lauer.
“I don’t know the reason, but we were told to cancel it,” Fauci said at the time.
The Post-Millennial
The only thing that’s sure about the origins of COVID-19 is that a whole lot of people are lying through their teeth and covering their arses.
But I’m sure that’s just a conspiracy theory.
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